Re: [orca-list] KDE / Plasma accessibility report

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

Howdy Chrys,

thanks for keeping us informed. Much appreciated.

How about sddm?

I'm ready to keep gdm-2.20.11 in Slint 15.0 (I've checked it will work) 
as it is
still full featured and fully accessible with braille and speech. 
However the
visual appearance of the UI shows its age and I can't upgrade as it 
would pull
a full GNOME desktop as dep. which is out of question.

But if sddm  becomes accessible, well, I could say good bye to gdm.

Cheers,
Didier


Le 22/04/2021 à 00:29, chrys a écrit :
> Howdy List,
>
> well, some time has passed since my last report about KDE / Plasma 
> accessibility.
>
> here i wanna give you a quick overview what happend, whats work starts 
> aaand whats currently in pipe.
>
> What happened?
>
> KDE Default Start menu is now completely accessible: in Plasmas most 
> current version 5.21, the start menu was completely rewritten. Also with 
> keyboard only navigation and accessibility in mind. it works quite 
> awesome here. The two alternatives what come along with an default KDE / 
> Plasma are completly accessible as well. the alternatives cover just 
> different layouts like an fullscreen overlay (like gnome shell) and an 
> more traditional menu (like mate).
>
> Klipper is accessible: Klipper, the KDE clipboard manager is accessible 
> now and bound to an shortcut (in next plasma release). this gives you 
> access to your clipboard history. so you can paste stuff you copied some 
> time ago. so you can copy "A", paste (or not) it somewhere, copy "B", 
> and go back to "A" when needed.
>
>
> Whats in Pipe?
>
> currently are patches ready for testing to make the tray icons 
> accessible and keyboard navigate able. you should be able to focus any 
> entry in your tray area. you can find the patches here:
>
> https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/770
>
> Huge thanks to Carl Swan here, for his nice talk in IRC and its hard 
> engagement to make a free world more open.
>
> Whats planned?
>
> we just started to verify the KCM - KDE Control Modul to make it 
> completely accessible. this might take some time, but will result in 
> give you the complete power of your control panel. currently its just 
> partial accessible. this should be a huge step to have KDE fully 
> accessible.
>
>
> the great thing. not only me. but the whole KDE Community is seriously 
> interested in having KDE software fully accessible. this is more 
> important IMO than just have one or two persons working on accessibility 
> and will warranty, great accessibility in future.
>
>
> they just switched the git infrastructure to gitlab, that gives better 
> accessibility than the previously used phabricator platform as well.
>
>
> still its not ready for per day usage but, there is a hell lot of very 
> nice stuff happening. Also if its not done over night, but will result 
> in some very cool alternative for you all!
>
> I might try to report more often to the current happenings in future.
>
> Wanna Help? Are there any bloggers out there? Or interested in write 
> some text about progress and happenings? It would be cool if we could 
> highlight those changes more often and detailed to the public to share 
> the progress. Maybe you wanna contact me.
>
> cheers chrys
>
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